(real) ww2 pictures thread

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Finns

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>>32585076
das a spicy meatball

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>>32587566

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>>32587571

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>>32587576

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>>32587580

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>>32587589

Why do I feel so much nostalgia for the WWII time period? Gives me dat dere comfy feeling

>>32588555
How is this even possible?

>>32584888
Is that a Jagdtiger?

>>32589480

Rotten trees and drunk drivers

>>32587576

holy shit

>>32589480
vodka

>>32589836
what is that?

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great pics
i wanted to contribute as well

>>32590246

Looks like a navy ship turret.

>>32590246
looks like a naval battery on its side. place might of been a shipyard b4 it was bombed to hell

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American soldiers meeting with Soviet forces for the first time in WW2

>>32590246
It's a salvaged turret from the japanese ship Mutsu. Read it's wikipedia page for some serious shit.

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legendary photo of a Tiger in combat

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The waste of resources attempting to capture Stalingrad was a fatal mistake

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Had Hitler moved his 7th army division towards the oilfields south of Stalingrad, he would have been able to slowly suffocate the Soviet's Armor Advancements

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The Soviet Victory began the great advance to Berlin and Allied Morale was at an all time high

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No greater joy than the small everyday victories

>>32590405
Kid 2nd from left looks about 12.

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While German equipment was objectively better in every way, the complex designs meant high price costs, difficult maintenance, repairs and overall low numbers

A Tiger Tank costed as much as 8 Sherman Tanks, was far more complex to maintain and repair on the front lines. While the Kill ratio was much higher than any other armor divisions, it was overwhelmed with sheer brute numbers

Sometimes quantity beats quality

>>32590463
Didn't he send some to the oil fields? I could've sworn some part of the German army was sent there at some point. I'm probably misremembering something.

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>>32590525

Hitler had divided the 7th army to both take the Oilfields and Stalingrad

When Axis forces reached the oilfields, they found it was sabotaged by retreating soviet forces and would take months to repair to operational condition

Perhaps regardless of his decisions, Hitler was doomed to fail

>>32590553
>hey found it was sabotaged by retreating soviet forces
Now I remember! I knew there were some shenanigans with the oil fields. It's been too long since I read anything on ww2. Thanks, anon.

>>32587571
>that filename
kek

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>>32590608
>impossible to find real color photos from the USSR during ww2 because they lacked the ability to copy agfacolor/kodachrome

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i wish i had more wallpaper pics to post, i just post what ive managed to save from /k/ in the last decade, thank you for posting

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Initial bomb runs had caused minor disturbance for military units but catastrophic results for civilian lives

until more sophisticated forms of strategic bombing were invented, large areas of land were reduced to rubble

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>>32590703
>until more sophisticated forms of strategic bombing were invented, large areas of land were reduced to rubble

intentional

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>>32590719

whoops i believe this might be Vietnam era

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The AK variants saw battle just 2 years after the end of WW2 , would have been an interesting exchange

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here is a classic

>>32590759
>The AK variants saw battle just 2 years after the end of WW2

>1956 is two years after the end of WW2

>>32590463
>>32590525

by the time they arrived the oil fields were all burning and unusable
they were more important to the germans than to the russians anyway, but they delayed the offensive because of MUH STALINGRAD

>>32589480
Have you ever seen the visibility from the inside of a T-34? They probably didn't notice until the tank came to a sudden halt.

>>32590522
>objectively better in every way
this is what wehraboos actually believe
if you can't drive the thing for more than an hour without it shitting itself out of a gearbox then it can hardly be the "best" at anything

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>>32590850

Based on captured Sturmgewehr in 1943
Kalashnikov Passed Contest R2 in 1946
Deployed by Army in 1947

Subjective if your counting major battles, and early specific models

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what are your sources for good military pics/ wallpapers?

ive been using :

https://wall.alphacoders.com/by_category.php?id=18&name=Military+Wallpapers&page=20

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Hungarian troops during the invasion of Yugoslavia, 1941.

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>>32590921
I've almost exclusively used /k/ for good quality pics/wallpapers

>>32590733
i'm calling reenactor

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German POWs, Norway 1940.

>>32590522
>>objectively better in every way
>high price
>difficult maintenance
>difficult repairs
>low numbers
I must have different criteria for what is or isn't 'objectively better in every way'.

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>>32590982

perhaps i over-stretched it

on paper, the numbers were best in performance class

armor, effective range , power

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Italian Alpine troops disembark from an airplane in Albania, 1940.

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>>32584540
Unterscharführer of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler with baby chicks, Kursk 1943

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Japanese POWs captured by the Soviets at Khalkhin Gol, 1939.

>>32590888
>Subjective if you're counting major battles
The Hungarian uprising - Budapest 1956

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some time after the war, an abandoned submarine drifted ashore to a small town , it was an eye sore to the community for months

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American soldier Henry Tannenbaum, KIA at Ottre, Belgium, 1945.

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>>32590847

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German anti-tank training with a captured French tank.

>>32590888

>deployed by army = saw battle

>>32591041
>eye sore
It was a tourist attraction and they made a pretty penny charging people to climb on it and a few in it (until the two tour guides died due to noxious gases within the sub).

>>32590888

It didn't enter army trials until 1948, wasn't adopted until 1949, and the first time it was used in combat was in 1956.

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Recently captured Soviet POWs attempt to convince their comerades to surrender to the Finns, 1941.

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>>32591109
Sorry i was misinformed , im a light reader

>>32590935
>you will never be as cool as the turret gunner in that pic

>>32584806
rste_kobura.jpg
>>32584810
te_myshkovariver.jpg
>>32584821
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Fug, looks like its time to reinstall Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm

>>32591174

Fallen Fighters doesn't have Panthers or a bigass cathedral, though.

>>32591160
uh proofs ???
>proxy hohols

>>32591173
>you'll never be as cool as tge pilot in that picture
>has gun pods bolted to the sides of the hull

>>32591041

this is a ww1 sub

toured the great lakes after the war iirc

>>32589889
It is.

>>32584540
(((Real))) ww2 pictures please

>>32590832
what tank is that in the back

>>32592543
A german panther i believe, how was the panther anyways?

>>32589889
>>32591987
Looks more like a Jagdpanzer IV

>>32590888
It is more based on the Garand then the STG.

>>32591070
Best camo.

>>32591131
>super-heavy tanker for a super-heavy tank

>>32593450
its a jagdtiger

>>32596423
Looking carefully, seems so.

>>32584899

I know what you're doing. Please continue.

>>32588555
SERGEI YOU TURNIP